[Video] Q10: As used in line 65, “fine” most nearly means

Explanation for Question 10 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

Question 10 asks, as you said, line 65. 2 Fine. Most nearly means what? So let's look back at the sentence they're referencing 3 here. It gets some context and help us understand and answer this question. 4 So the sentence that they're saying referencing says also by the time Abby was 5 three years old, she developed a fine capacity for mischief and for DVI de 6 sorry, and for devising ingenious, ways of being troublesome, 7 which found much exercise, not only for Silas's patients, 8 but for his watchfulness and penetration. So in this case, 9 the word that we're looking at here is fine. 10 It's you being used to describe her capacity for mischief, 11 which is also described as devising ingenious, 12 ways of being troublesome. So this word and genius might 13 be the closest thing in this sentence to help us understand what fine means. 14 So just kind of like elevated, informed, 15 ingenious, smart, intelligent, things like that, 16 that, so if you look at the answer choices here, 17 I can just look through them. 18 Acceptable means acceptable. That wouldn't really indicate the level of 19 like complexity. If they're ingenious ways, 20 they're going to be relatively complex, 21 acceptable here would just kind of mean basic. 22 So answer choice a would be incorrect. If we look at be delicate, 23 that's going to mean something like fragile, fragile is going to be incorrect here. 24 That would not be a good way to describe her capacity for mischief, 25 right? Again, she's ingenio...